Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I suppose I should ask rhetorically why Senator Forshaw, after 10 years in this place, cannot understand the first part of the primary answer to his question, and has to ask the same one again. The really interesting thing about this is that, if Australians had to live with Labor’s plans on telecommunications, payphones would be about all they had because they would have no broadband, no modern form of communications and we would be living in the horse and buggy days of telecommunications, and you would need a payphone on every street.